Thursday, 31 March 2011

Bleeding star was a mile stone in the birth of Scene Kids releasing their first branch of their brand, it came about not long before 2005. It took one person to make this brand, and many to spread the word of these deigns. Essentially the team is one organizer and a group of his friends that want to be involved, many other have joined the teem throughout its few years of design, such as ; bands, extreme athletes, DJ's, artists and designers. With all that fresh young dedicated talent no wonder they have helped make this sub culture what it is.

Bleeding star group shot

You can see the typical styled up image of a group of people who would fall into he Scene Kid sub couture, through promoting their designs with these models and with this style of background they have idolized key features scene kids strive on. The graphics and print found on most of the t-shirts worn are in the very specific art style of graffiti, with graffiti comes skaters, BMX's and other extreme sports and allot of those people are heavily tattooed witch can be seen in they style of some of these t shirts. They all feed back into each other. Bleeding Star was one of the first to combine the mixed elements from Skaters, Emo's and other alternate sub cultures and this was their bi-product. Through looking at the elements of street culture they helped birth a new one, that other were tempted into from the designs they produced, the graphic prints as well as the attitude they adopted.

"Stand up fro what you believe in despite how much persecution you may have to go through. No matter what 'scene' you may belong to, or whatever type of music you enjoy listening to. Wether you spend your days dancing to the pulse of a DJ, or rockin it at a hardcore show, just be true to yourself."

This is bleeding stars motto, from when it first launched itself into the world, and allot of the points it makes fit the lifestyle taken form the Scene kid's 'bible'.

Bleeding star

This image is one they use to market their work and sell it the fact you can hardly see any of the print of the clothing is insignificant to the buyer, as they are mainly looking at the girls dyed hair and extensions, he accessories and attitude. She looks how they want to, or think would be cool to look like and gives off a very in your face vibe, through using the characteristics of this subculture they have increaed the chance of swaying someone young and inpreshinible to buy it. They are selling a lifestyle, ideally the lifestyle of a Scene Kid. Trough marketing this way they may have glamorized the fad of sleeve tattoo's and facial piercing, dyed hair and such but they took these features form other cultures to produce work like this developing a cattails for the birth of Scene Kid's.

Bleeding star

Other latter elements seen in their production is the use of unisex clothing, as they only really sell tops and hoody's it is easier for them to do this, form a culture were guys are wearing girls jeans because their skinnier and girls wearing guys tops because they are bigger and more graphic the brand has taken this into consideration when producing designs. The print on the clothes is neither masculine or feminine. They have some girly colour and some gory male style imagery but still stays neutral, this was then latter developed by other brans they have association with into such prints as the scull and bow print and death cherry's in cutesy styles. The brand itself has moved on through time, their early designs are very dull to what they produce now, and this can be linked with how spratick the Scene Kid coulture is, asways changing always finding new things they like, new music and developing themself and Bleeding star have been on the side lines watchign and helping them as they find themself more engulfed by this social group and show them some serous extreme Scene Kids.

Henry Holland seems to be a bit of a hybrid himself, he has a lot of key characteristics of a Scene Kid and these have obviously been filtered down through his designs. He has a prided hair cut and packs a colourful punch; his clothes have the attitude of what’s expected form the street culture, bold and savvy, as long as the person in it has the dominance so the clothes don’t wear them. Is this the sub culture of a Scene Adult?

Henry Holland himself.

You can see from his look that he is a very trendy guy, a modern twist on big hair, his print top, the bravery to sport tartan trousers and avoiding looking like a punk want-to-be. He may not have the animal print, the dyed hair, the skinny skinny jeans but he has the key features of attitude and print. As Scene Kids aren’t just about the look it allot about the balance of attitude, a mix of intimidation with not being seen as some arrogant prick. Henry has this balance. In this picture he is wearing quite a contemporary print t-shirt, the fact its print plays heavily on the influence of this street culture, the fact you don’t really see what the image is of straight away seem to be another hint towards inspiration of scene kids tops, as most of them now are so heavily packed full of amazing graphics you do have to sit, stair and dissect the image. Different angel same point. Keeping it simple with his grey hoody and black jacket he finds himself slipping again back into a scene kid stature, with the low cut tight jacket + hoody, layering up he has done what most scene guys do.

Henry Holland

Moving on the man’s work, hear you can see he’s has followed the ever so popular trend of the heavy text print slogan tops. When these first came out the few people that had the right attitude to wear and pull off were scene kids due to their attitude to life and from what some of these early confrontational tops said. Here he has launched his own spin of them, different slogans still on the borderline of “offensive” print, he’s added colour on the text making It pop and put them on colourful backgrounds, the inspiration of this can quite easily be traced to the scene kid colour pallet, as you know how kids and colour’s are. There is one other thing he has taken form the street style, big baggy t-shirts, witch such epic prints Scene kids need a big canvas to display it on and can’t help but drape themselves in these drowning tops over their frail body’s, he has just taken the length and kept them thin, other have altered this further tuning this fad of big bold text print tops into long t-shirt dresses. With the guy, colour on the pants is essential, when you wear jeans low and everyone can see them scene kids make sure their pretty, Henry has obviously taken note of this, taking out the hole element of trousers. No high tops for Henry though, but he has just transferred the colour onto boots, making them very snazzy.

Henry Holland

Print and poker-dot’s, there was a time when poker-dot was one of the main crazes of Scene girls, for some of the old school’ers it still is even after the big shift onto animal print and the new funky cutesy object print. But what ells would you expect from a graduate in print, so why would Henry not look to the streets for colourful, unique print based sub culture of scene kids? The fact he studied journalism as well meaning he is more likely to be aware of the cultures going on in the country.

Monday, 28 March 2011

In Marc by Marc's spring/ summer 2010 collection they seem to have grasped allot of street influence form the sub culture of Scene Kid's. The strong heavy bold use of colour, the animal inspired print mixed with quirky accessories.

Marc by Marc Jacobs

The leopard print top can easily be seen to transcend from the street cultures of Scene kids, as it seems to be one of the key features of their wardrobe to identifying them selves into this culture, The low drape sleeves on the top stylize the scene kids look of being petite and small girls with slightly swampy tops yet still defining the small waist. It still sets a clear break from the origin of the pattern, it is discolored from its natural form and has been enlarged and more dispersed creating more thoughtful and conceptual look. Mixing the electric blue belt ribbon tie with the striking bright orange pattern skirt gives of a bold and complimentary statement witch is seen allot in the trends of this street culture, the total look is then topped with a huge oversized bow in the hair. Girls form this sub culture have been seen with the same feature and allot of the tops features bow’s collaborated with sculls.

Marc by Marc Jacobs

Within the male realm of the stylization of scene kids Marc by Marc has been very very subtle in this aspect he has stuck with his favorites electric blue witch attract scene kids like moths to a flame, fashioning this into a luxurious long mac coat, not the typical scene kid coat mind but the colour keeps it on trend. With guys jackets need to make a bold statement accompanied by heavy print tops, but Marc has substituted this with a printed tie, toning it down adding to the subtle effect. A very effective key to menswear, subtle and different, ironic as scene kids are anything but subtle appearance wise. The pice I find most significant in this outfit that is taken from the street style is the belt buckle, as for most males cultures it is a source of pride and status. The bigger the buckle, the more colorful, the more dominant the male, scene kids opt for the more colorful and shinny to state their masculinity.

Marc by Marc Jacobs

In a culture wear appearance and attitude is everything this image seem to key down some of those spectacular features, not as in your face but still non the less precent and powerful, the big curls of hair imitate a more tasteful appearance of the teen driven craze of back combed hair. The sunglasses give off a intimidating effect that scene girls achieve with other means, via being more creative. Once again Marc has stuck on gold with this beautiful animal print coat, Cheater. Different to the leopard print but still quite similar it branches off in to the animal inspired realm and could have lead to other fads of print such as zebra and such. The small cutesy dress underneath looks almost misplaced on this girl witch some groups of scene kids have developed into their own style, such as floral like dresses replaces with prints of animated sculls, cherries and stars, the fact is the prints are subtle and just stand out because of the style cut of the dress itself so when you begin to pick up on these things you notice such print details. Marc has pinpointed this awkwardness of the figure and look of the person to the cut of the clothes so you divulge more deeply into the entirety of the look. The flat dolly shoes could also been seen as simplified replicas of the heavy pattern iron fist style shoes, non the less you wont catch a scene kid in anything other than high tops or dolly shoes just add colour.